Pasting-machine.



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PATENTED DBG. 29, 1903.

PASTING MACHINE.

y ,APPLICATION FILED APR. `24, 1903.

No. 748,428. PATNTED DEC. 29,' 1903.

A. SIMONSON.

PASTING MACHINE.

APPLIOMJION FILED .9.113.24, 1903.

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UNTTED STATES Patented December 29, 1903.

ABRAHAM SIMONSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PASTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,428, dated December 29, 1903.

Application filed April 24, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern: y

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM SIMoNsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, (Port Rich mond,) in the borough of Richmond, in the county ot' Richmond and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fasting-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in pasting-machines capable of use in a general way, being adapted, however, particularly for applying paste or mucilage to sheets of paper adapted to lie one upon the other to form a pad of sheets connected at certain intervals, from which pad what is known as paper garlands are cut.

The purpose of the invention is to so construct the pasting-machine that it will be simple, durable, and economic and will be provided with opposing pasting members and an operating mechanism for said members, whereby one member will be receiving an adhesive material while the other is depositing such material and whereby at each operation of the machine the support for the pasting members will be given a half-turn in addition to a downward and following upward movement, causing the opposing members to be alternately shifted, the depositing member at the upward movement of the support being placed in position to receive a fresh supply of adhesive material, while the member just supplied with such material will be placed in position to deposit the adhesive material upon an object placed to receive it.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a vertical transverse section through the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a pasted pad, showing in dotted lines the out- Serial No. 154,140. (No model.)

line of the paper garland to be cut from the pad and in positive lines the points within such outline where the adhesive material is deposited upon the overlying sheets constituting the pad, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken practically on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Av represents a table of any desired dimensions which is supported by a frame or legs B in a suitable manner, the said supports being preferably placed at the ends of the table, and these supports may be connected, if desired.

At one side of the center of the table a longitudinal beam l0 is supported above the upper face of the table by suitable standards 11, as is shown best in Fig. 1, and at or about the central portion ofthe said upper beam 10 a guide 12 is secured, extending horizontally and inwardly therefrom, and the said guide is provided with a slot 13, as is shown in Fig. 1, extending from its outer end a predetermined distance toward its attached end.

A keeper-arm C is attached to the upper beam 10 at one side of the guide l2, and this keeper-arm C is preferably made of spring wire of suitable gage and comprises a longitudinal horizontally-located body member 14:, which is for a greater portion of its length parallel with the inner face of the upper beam 10, as is shown in Fig. 2, and is provided with an attaching member l5, which extends into the said beam 10 and is formed at one end of the keeper, while at the opposite end of the keeper, which end is free, a hooked or curved projection 16 is formed, the curvature being in direction of the center of the table, whereby at the rear of this hook projection 16 a recess 17 is produced in the keeper for a purpose to be hereinafter described. In order that the said keeper C when depressed at its free end will positively return to its normal position, a spring 18 is located between the beam 10 and the body-section 14 of the keeper, as is shown in Fig. 2, the spring acting to force the body-section Yof the keeper away from the said beam.

At the central portion of the table A rods 19 are located, which extend in cage form down through the said table, having suitable nuts at their upper ends, and these rods 19 are secured at their lower ends to a bottom plate 2O and passed at their upper portions through a corresponding upper plate 21,Which is in engagement with the under face of the table A. This upper plate 21 is held in position by sleeves 22, carried by the said rods 19, the sleeves having bearing against the upper face of the bottom plate 2O and against the lower face of the upper plate 21, as is shown in Fig. 1. Each of these two plates 2O and 21 is provided at opposing faces with a reduced collar 23, and over these collars 23 the ends of a tube 24 are fitted, the tube being secured by screws 25 or their equivalents to both of the collars 23 of the plates 20 and 21 of the cage D.

A vertical slot 26 is produced in lthe tube 24 of the cage D at diametrically opposite sides, and with the upper end of these vertical or longitudinal slots 26 the upper ends of spiral slots 27 and 27a connect. The lower ends of the spiral slots 27 and 27a connect with the vertical or longitudinal slots 26 at opposite sides of the tube, also at a point about centrally between the upper and lower ends of the said vertical slots, as is shown in Fig. 1. Where the lower end of the spiral slot 27a connects with one of the vertical or longitudinal slots 26, a spring controlled switch-point 30 is pivoted, adapted in its normal position to follow the outline of the upper edge of' the spiral slot 27a where it connects with the said vertical slot 26 in the tube 24, as is also shown in Fig. 1. This switchpoint, while it is free to move downward vagainst the resistance of its spring, cannot move upward beyond its normal position, as the lower end of the switch-point, which normally crosses the vertical slot 26, engages with a pin 31, carried by the said tube 24, and the two spiral grooves 27 and 27a are oppositely disposed, as is also shown in Fig. 1.

A spindle E is mounted to slide freely at the central portion of the table A, and this spindle is likewise made to slide freely in the top and bottom plates of the cage D and through the tube 24 of this cage and is provided with a pin 32, which in the normal position of the spindle E is at the upper junction of the spiral slots 27 and 27ad with the vertical slots 26 in the said tube 24 and extends through both of the slots 26.

A cross-bar 33 is attached to the upper end of the spindle E by means of a set-screw 33a or its equivalent, and eyes 33b are formed at the ends of the said cross-bar. In one of these y eyes a rod 34 is adjustably attached, and a vided with downwardly-extending pins or fingers 36a. These fingers or pins 36 and 362L may be grouped, as may be found desirable; but when the machine is to be used for pasting the leaves of a pad together from which a paper garland is to be cut the plate 35 has its pins or fingers 36 arranged thereon in groups of lozenge shape, usually four in number, while the plate 35a has its ngers or pins 36a in rectangular groups and in single and double formation at its marginal portions, the rectangular groups being at the central portion of the said plate, as is shown in Fig. 2.

At the lower end of the spindle or shaft E a ball 37 is preferably formed, having a pin 38 extending through it, and this pin is passed through a slot 39 in a crank-arm 40, secured to a shaft 41, journaled in bearings carried by the supports for the table A. At a convenient point in the length of the shaft 41 a second crank-arm 42 is secured, and at the outer end of this crank-arm 42 a pitman 43 is pivotally attached, and the said pitmau 43 is likewise usually attached to a foot-lever 44, suitably pivoted in the framework of the machine, as is shown in Fig. 1.

At one side of the table A, below the upper beam 10, a receptacle 45 is located, adapted to receive adhesive material of any description, and preferably this receptacle 45 is held to slide on guide-pins 46, around which cushion-springs 47 are placed, so that in the downward movement of the pasting-plate when it enters the said receptacle 45 the said receptacle will move downward or in direction of the table as the fingers or pins of the plate engage with the bottom thereof, and at the opposite side of the table A the sheets 48 to be pasted are placed, one sheet being placed upon the other, but not until the under sheet has received adhesive material from one or the other of the pasting-plates 35 or 35a.

In the operation of this machine when the shaft E is drawn downwardly the pin 32 will travel down the vertical slots V26 in the tube 24 of the cage, bringing the fingers of one plate---the plate 35, for examplein engagement with a sheet 48, while the fingers of the pasting-plate 35ad will be immersed in the adhesive material in the receptacle 45. As the shaft E is carried downward its pin 32 will trip the switch-point 30, which will immediately close after the pin and prevent the pin of the shaft E at the upward motion of the shaft, which motion takes place when pressure on the foot-lever 44 is applied, from passing directly up through the said vertical slots 26, compelling the pin 32 to enter the lower portions of the spiral slots 27 and 27a and travel through said slots to their upper portions. As the pin 32 passes up the spiral slots'27 and 27, one end of the pin being in each spiral slot, the shaft E is given a halfturn, and one pasting-plate is carried from the paste pot or receptacle 45 and the other IOO upward from engagement with the sheet 48, with which it may have engaged, and at the same time the position of the two pastingplates is reversed, the pasting-plate which left the sheet being carried over the pastereceptacle 45, while the plate the fingers of which had been immersed in the adhesive material of the paste-receptacle will be brought in position to engage with another sheet at the next downward movement of the shaft E.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a portion of asheet 48 and the outline of a garland to be cut therefrom. In the operation of the two pasting-plates 35 and 35a when one sheet, 48, is laid upon the table and, for example, the pasting-plate 35 is carried downward to deposit adhesive material thereon it will deposit such material at what would be the central portion of the garland to be cut, asis shownv at 50 in Fig. 3. The second sheet is then placed on the rst sheet, and the machine is again operated, reversing the plates and bringing the pastingplate 35 over the second laid sheet, and this plate 35a will deposit adhesive material at what will be the corner portions of the paper garland, as is shown at 5l in Fig. 3. This operation is repeated until the desired number of sheets have been pasted together at various points from which the garland may be cut.

The direction of rotation of the crossbar 33 is indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2, and as the said cross-bar is revolved to change the position of the pasting-plates the upper portion of one of the bars 34 or 34, whichever is passed over the paste-receptacle 45, will engage with the bow or hook portion 16 of the spring-controlled keeper C and will occupy a position in the recess 17 of the said keeper, as is shown in Fig. 2, and said keeper will serve to prevent the cross-bar 33 from moving farther down than is desired and will insure one pasting-plate being directly over the paste-receptacle 45 and the other pastingplate directly over the sheet upon which the adhesive material is to be deposited.

Having thus described my invention, vI claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentt* l. In a pasting-machine, a support, a shaft having a rotary end movement in the support, opposing pasting-plates carried by the said shaft, and means substantially as described, for imparting first end movement and second a rotary and opposing end movement to the said shaft, whereby to bring the pasting-plates first in direction of the support and next upwardly from the support, simultaneously changing the position of the plates, as described.

2. In a pasting-machine, a support, a shaft having rotary and end movement in the support, opposing pasting-plates carried by said shaft, and means substantially as described, for imparting first end movement and second a rotary and opposing end movement to the said shaft,whereby to bring the pasting-plates iirst in direction of the support and next upwardly from the support, simultaneously changing the position of the plates, and a keeper for regulating the extent of the movement of the said pasting-plates, as specified.

3. In a pasting-machine, a table, a cage carried thereby, including a tube having a vertical and a spiral slot therein, the spiral slot connecting with the vertical slot at its upper end and at a point between its ends, and a spring controlled switch point extending across the vertical slot where the lower portion of the spiral slot connects, a shaft loosely mounted in the cage, being adapted to turn and slide therein, a projection from the shaft, adapted to travel in the slots of the tubular section of the cage, means for raising and lowering the shaft, an arm at the upper portion of the shaft, pasting-plates carried by the said arm and provided with members adapted to receive adhesive material, and a fountain for adhesive material, arranged relatively to one of the pasting-plates, being adapted to receive the members thereof, as set forth.

4. In a pasting-machine, the combination with a table, a cage secured to the table, extending downwardly therefrom, which cage includes a tube having a vertical slotvtherein, and a spiral slot which at its upper end connects with the upper end of the vertical slot and at its lower end connects with the vertical slot at a point between its ends and a switchpoint capable of downward movement and limited upward movement, which switchpoint crosses the vertical slot in the tubular section of the cage where the lower portion of the spiral slot connects therewith, of a shaft mounted to slide and turn in the tubular section of the cage, a pin on the said shaft adapted to travel in the slots of the said tubular section of the cage, means for raising and lowering the said shaft, a cross-bar at-4 tached to the said shaft above the table, pasting-plates supported from the ends of the IOO cross-bar, each pasting-plate being provided Y with fingers adapted to receive adhesive material, means for limiting the movement of the cross-bar in a rotary direction, and a receptacle for adhesive material, carried by the table and so located as to be beneath one of the said pastingplates to supply the fingers thereof with adhesive material, as described.

5. In a pasting-machine,a plurality of pasteplates each having a set of paste-applying fingers, and means for successively bringing said sets of fingers alternately into engagement with the work, said fingers being arranged in alternating positions on their respective plates, whereby to apply glue to the leaves of a tablet in positions correspondingly alternating with each other.

6. In a pasting-machine, a support, a shaft adapted for rotary and end movement in the support, opposing pasting-plates carried by said shaft, and mechanism for imparting first a simple end movement and secondly a Coinbined rotary and opposing end movement to the said shaft, simultaneously changing the position of the plates, said mechanism including means for stopping the shaft between each simple and each combined movement performed thereby, and a spring-actuated latch for engaging and holding said shaft at the ro close of each of its partial revolutions.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABRAHAM SIMONSON.

Witnesses:

WALDEN M. BRAMAN, BENJ. L. VAN PELT. 

